2'iteUigcncer & journal.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
Lancaster, Janaary 8,1850.
p-We would direct public attention to the sale
of Mr. A. W. Bolsitius’ valuable City property,
which is to take place on Saturday evening next, at
the Swan Hotel. See advertisement in another
column.
Otis’ Machine.— We would
direct the attention of Cabinet Makers, Carpenters
and Wheel-Wrights, to the advertisement, in another
column, for the sale of these valuable machines.
Mr. John Care, of this City, is the Agent for Lan
caster county, who will take pleasure in furnishing
the Machines at short notice and on the most mod
erate terms. We advise our friends to give him a
call. T .
Governor's Message.
This State paper will be found at length on our
first page, and we invite for it a careful perusal.
Whilst some of the doctrines advanced by the-Gov
ernor are objectionable, as might be expected,
emanating from such a source, such as the favor
with which he regards the “Reliel Issues,” a small
note currency generally, and his high tariff notions,
it has more or a business-like character about it
than the message of Gen. Taylor. There is not so
much shuffling or “beating round the bush” with
it. H!b positions are taken with more boldness,
and he does not hesitate to tell the Legislature that
he is in favor of the above mentioned measures,
and all the other heresies of the Federal party.
Well, we like to see this in an Executive. We
admire boldness even in a bad cause, and we give
Governor JoHxsToir. credit for more manliness than
is common with-the leaders of whiggery, although
we cannot subscribe to many of the doctrines he
advances.
Speaking of the Message the Pennsylvanian says.
“We have in this State paper a wonderful specimen
of the calculating faculties of our present Federal
rulers; and a brilliant c >mmentary upon the finan
cial skill ot the present State Treasurer, who,“ac
cording to his own report, has been reducing the
State debt in a manner peculiarly original. For
example : the Governor says, the debt amounted,
on the Ist ol December, 1849, to $40,574, 413 45.
In his message of last year, he declares it to have
been, on the Ist of December, 1848, $40,425,730 98
—and this in the face of a boasted reduction by the
operation of the sinking fund, stated to be $227,-
593 53, and the non-presentation of more than
$400,000 of relief notes! Any one who has ever
studied Dilwoktb, can appreciate the extraordi
nary plan the Governor and State Treasurer have
fallen upon, to free -the State from debt. The cal
culation of how long it will take to do so, by the
mode they have adopted, is a question, we fancy,
too deep for the mastery of any financier now
Documents Accompanying the
President’s Message.
We have already given abstracts from the reports
of the Secretary of the Treasury and Post Master
General, and in this paper we give a synopsis of
the reports of the Secretaries of War, Navy and
the Interior. These, with the Governor's Message,
which will be found ou the first page, finish the
lengthy apnual documents of the season—and, here
after. we shall have a little more “elbow room,”
and be able to devote more space to other matters
and things requiring our attention.
William H. Allen.
This gentleman, as we learn from the Philadel
phia papers, was duly installed, with appropriate
ceremonies, on the Ist instant, as President of
Girard College.
We think the Trustees of that Institution have
fortunate selection. We have known
President Allen for a longtime, ever since his
connexion, some fourteen years ago, with Dickinson
College—and we think we hazard nothing in saying
that he is, in every respect, well qualified for the
important station to which he has just been elevated.
His career as a Professor in Dickinson College was
singularly creditable to himself and promotive of
the interests of that institution, and we doubt not
that in his now exalted and responsible situation,
he will more than meet the most sanguine expec
tations of those who have confided the high trust
to his guardianship President Allen is a profound
scholar and an accomplished gentleman, and we
shall be much mistaken, indeed, if He does not at
once take the highest rank among the literati of
Philadelphia.
The State Legislature.
Both branches of the Legislature organized on
Tuesday last, at Harrisburg, and the Governor’s
Message was delivered'on Wednesday. For. Spe
aker, the House selected John S. McCalmont, Esq.,
of Clarion county, a young gentleman of decided
ability, a sound and thorough-going Democrat, and
an honest man. He will, without doubt, make a
most excellent and popular presiding officer, and
his elevation to so distinguished a post is a well
deserved compliment, not only to himself, but also
to the sterling democracy of his district. In the
Senate, the democratic candidate was J. P. Braw
let, Esq., than whom no man in that body was
more deserving the honor. He received the entire
democratic vote on every ballot, with the exception
of one, Valentine Best, Esq., of Columbia county,
who professes to be a democrat, but whose conduct
savors quite as much of whiggery. This gentleman
was elected on the eighth ballot, by the aid of his
own vote added to the sixteen whig votes in the
Senate. What consideration i 6 promised the whigs
for their kindness remains to be seen. This “join
ing of jibbets” is not without a proper price, we
are sure—and the record and Speaker Best's acts,
will, before long, show “how the land lies, 11 and to
which party he gives the preference.
The result of the election for Speaker of the
Senate has not disappointed us. We had no confi
dence in the political integrity of Mr. Best, and
tve anticipated the very result that has been brought
£bout. We our fears to some of our friends
jweeks ago, and our only wonder all along has
been, and. still is, to know all the favors he will
confer upon the whigs for this condescension, on
their part We shall see what we shall see.
The House completed their organization on
Wednesday by electing William Jack, Esq., of
Westmoreland, Clerk; Mr. Pratt, of
Sergeant-at-Arms; andfMr. Beck, of York county,
Door Keeper—all democrats.
The Senate electedi i or Clerk, S. Pearson—
Transcribing do. Mr. McCaulet —Sergeant at-
Arms, Mr. Millinber, and Messenger, Mr. Youno
—all whigs! and the democrats have got the As
sistant Clerk. J. Patrick, one of the Transcribing
Clerks, C. Colt, the Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms
D. S. Kinsel, the Door Keeper and Assistant,
Messrs. Morris and Palmer, and one of the Mes
sengers, Mr. Peterson. So much for Mr. Best.
The Whigs with the aid of his vote have got the
best slice off the loafl What other benefits they
are to derive fro.m placing Mr. B. in the chair, will
be seen as the session advances.
Newspaper Change.— The last Chambersburg
Sentinel contains the valedictory of A. 11. Smith, Esq.
its retiring editor—and the introductory of Joseph
Nlll, Esq. who takes his place, as also the address
of the new proprietors, Messrs. Nead & Kinnbaiid.
Mr. Smith, it will be recollected, is now part owner
and editor of=the Philadelphia- 0 f tke Timet.
Success attend them all.
Post Office Change.
We learn that the P. M. General has changed
the name of “Earl” Post Office, in this county, to
rt Qoodvs9,”
The Apportionment Law.
Our State Legislature, during the present session,
among other important matters,*will have to pass
an act districting the Commonwealth for Senators
and Representatives, to last until 1857. It is
’ scarcely necessary for us to observe, that this is’ a
*Jaty which will require all the care, caution, and
dispassionate consideration of the members. To.
accomplish the work, then, in a satisfactory man
ner, and with a proper regard to the interests of the
whole State, it will be necessary -to set to work
upon it at as early a day as possible, so that full
time can be had for calm deliberation. So impor.
tant a measure ought not to be delayed until the
closing hours of the session, as is too often the
case with important bills, when every thing has to
be hurried through in a crude and undigested form,
and laws of the greatest consequence passed,
so full of contradictions and absurdities that- it
takes the action ot several succoring Legislatures
to bring order out of chaos, and put them in pro
per shape to be understood.
While Pennsylvania is a thoroughly Democratic
State, and, of course, ought to have the advantage
of a Democratic apportionment so as to have at
all times a representation in accordance with the
•political sentiments of the majority, we would not,
by any means, be in favor of doing injustice ter our
political opponents* We would give them their
fair and legitimate share, and, by so doing, avoid
the frauds and unfairness practised by them in the
session of 1836, the last time they had a chance
to re-model the Legislative representation. Let
our Democratic friends at Harrisburg avoid this
precedent set them by the Whigs, and we doubt
not they can so frame a law as that it will prove
acceptable to the reflecting men of all parties, and
at the same time preserve the Democratic character
and integrity of the Keystone State.
Another Scene In the State Senate*
On the announcement of the Committees of the
Senate, on Friday, as we learn from the Democratic
Union , it was discovered that the self-elected Speaker
had given the whigs nearly all the important com
mittees. • This, to be sure was to be expected, as
one ol the conditions’of the bargain. The Appor
tionment Committee, however,—one of the most
important at the present session—was raised on
the morion of Gen William F. Packer, one of
the ablest members of the body, and every principle
of Parliamentary law and usage w&s violated by
Speaker Best, in not placing Mr. P. at the head of
it The violation of all rule was so gross, that Mr.
P. in justice to himself and constituents, rose in his
place and denounced the Speaker in the severest
terms.
He commenced by alluding to the disgraceful
scene (Best's conduct in electing himself.) which
had been witnessed a few days previously in the
Senate. He had hoped that no similar scene would
transpire in the future. He had supposed that
the Speaker then elected, would have acted at
least with common decency; but to this, he had
found him perfectly callous. (Mr. Crabb, a whig,
here called Mr. P. to order, but the chair permitted
him to proceed.) Mr. P resumed, addressing the
chair in the most emphatic manner. It was your
duty, Mr. Speaker, to place at the head of the com
mittee on the apportionment of the State, the mover
of the resolution by virtue of which it was created.
You have- not done so, and your course has been
direct insult to myself and my constituents. Mr.
P. concluded his remarks, (which were galling in
the extreme to Mr. Best,) by asking the Senate to
excuse him from serving on any of the standing
committees to which he had been appointed.
Verily, Mr. Best has earned for himself, by his
treachery to the Democratic party, an infamous
notoriety which will cling to him. like the fabled
shirt of Nessus, as long as he lives. His name will
live in history with the - names of the traitors who
deserted the Democrats in 1836, and went over to
the Federal party in that same Senate Chamber.
07" Since the above was in type, and on the next
day alter the occurrence mentioned had taken place,
the committee on the apportionment was enlarged
and Mr. Packer appointed its Spea
ker having evidently got ashamed of his conduct
in previously excluding him. A majority of the
committee, however, are Whigs!
dT 1 Peter G. Washington, Esq., late Auditor
of the Treasury for the P. 0. Department, has
opened an office in the City of Washington, for the
prosecution of all demands against any department
of the Government that may be entrusted to his
care. Mr. W. was an efficient, prompt and faithful
public officer, during the thirteen years he was con
nected with P. 0. Department—and we doubt not
he will be equally so in promoting the interests of
those who may entrust business in his hands. Should
any of our readers have claims against the Govern
ment—and, no doubt, many of them have—we have
no hesitation, from our knowledge of that gentle
man, in- advising them to employ Mr. W. to attend
to their business.
Hon. Abbot Lawrence.
This Boston millionare } who was sometime since
deputed by Gen. Taylor to represent the American
Republic at the aristocratic Court of Great Britain,
has been making a speech, as we learn by the late
foreign arrivals, to certain of the British nobility
and grandees. The London papers give an account
of a meeting of the governors of the Scottish Hos
pital, held in London on the 30th of November, at
which Sir Walter Stirling presided. The chairman
made a sensible speech, in which he spoke in ap
propriate terms of our country and its representa
tive then present,- By this time Mr. Lawrence ap
pears to have been brim-full of admiration for the
grandeur and power of England, and let off a mea
sure of h.s long pent up enthusiasm in a strain of
fulsome flattery which must have been peculiarly
gratifying to Sir Walter and the other dignitaries
present. Mr. Lawrence seems to have imbibed the
notion that the English nation is the greatest na
tion in the world—that their institutions are the ve
ry beau ideal of perfection—and that it is glory e
nough for the United States,to look upon her as a
mother, and to be permitted, as a distinguished fa
vo,r to take a position by her side in the great fam
ily of nations! Such servile adulation and syco
phantic cringing we have never before known in
an American Minister. . And to cap the climax of
his folly, he wound up his’remarks by giving as a
toast, “Great Britain and the United States! May
the stars and stripes of the Union float side by side
with the cross of St George, and may peace be
-preserved forever.”
The speech and toast were followed by loud
cheers—and well those present mignt give vent to
their feelings of joy, when an American Minister—
a republican representative—would so far turn his
back uponiis own country and its institutions, as
to exalt their’s to an over-towering pre-eminence
over them. We blush for the degradation our
country has to submit to under its present rulers.
Such would Hot have been the course of an Ameri
can Minister had the accomplished Cass been elec
ted to the Presidency.
The 'Late Queen Adelaide.— We learn by the
Cambria that Adelaide, Queen Dowager of England,
died on the. 2d of December. The event has been
anticipated, but nevertheless cannot fail to occasion
regret, not only in England, hut in every country
where genuine womanly virtues are respected. The
late queen was in the fifty-eighth year of her age
She was the daughter of the Duke of Saxe Meinin
gen, and her baptismal name was Adelaide Louisa
Theresa Caroline Amelia. She was married in
1818 to William IV., then Duke of Clarence, eight
years after his separation from Mis. Jordon, the
actress. She was recommended tolhe prince by the
queen mother, for her many amiable qualities and
•lomestic virtues. She had but one child, a daugb.
ier, bom the yw after her marriage, who died in
inliney.
Congressional Summary*
Both branches met on Monday the 31st alt. In
the Senate a number of resolutions and petitions
were presented, alter which that body held a short
executive session and then adjourned! to Thursday.-
The Speaker called the House to order at the
usual hour, and then announced the Standing Com
mittees as follows:—(We only give the important
committees.)
Committee on Way's and Means. —Thomas
Bayly, of Va., chairman; Jacob Thompson,
of Mi.; Samuel F. Vinton, of Ohio.; James S.
Green, of Mo.; Robert Toombs, of Ga,; Willi
am Hebard, of Vt.; Wm. Duer, of New York.;
George W. J ones, of Te.; Moses Hampton of Pa.
District of Columbia. —Albert G. Brown, of
Mi., chairman; Samuel W. Inge, of Aa.; John
L/Taylor, of Ohio.; Thomas J D, Fuller, of
Maine.; Jeremiah Morton, of Va.; Edward
Hammond,of Maryland.; Charles Allen, of Ms.;
Christopher H. Williams, of Te.; Walter Under
hill, of New York.
Judiciary. —James Thompson, of Ps., chair
man; John K. Miller, of 'Ohio; George Ash
man, of Ms.; Richard K. Meade, of Va.; Pres
ton King, of N. Y.; Abraham W. Venable, of
N. Ca.; Thaddens Stevens, of Pa.; Marshal J
Welborn, of Ga.
Territories. —Linn Boyd, of Ky,, chairman;
Wm. Richardson, of II.; Julios Rockwell, of
Ms.; James A. Se<Jsen, of Va.; Thomas L.
Clingman, of N. Ca.; David S. Kaufman, of
Texas ; Daniel Got, of N. Y.; Araham N. Fitch,
of la.; Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio.
Foreign Affairs.—John A. McClernard, of
11., chairman; James McDowell, of Va.; Robt.
C. Winthrop, of Ms.; Hugh A. Haralson, of
Ga.’ Henry W. Hilliard, of Aa.; Joseph A.
Woodward, of 8. Ca.; Frederick P Btanton, of
Te.; Alexander W. Buel, of Mn.; Elbridee G.
Spalding, of N.Y.
Elections.— Wm. Strong, of Pa., chairman;
John Van Dyke, of N. J.; David T. Disney, of
Ohio; John B. B. Thompson of Ky.; Samuel
W. Harris, of Aa,; Isham G. Harris, of Te.;
Edward W. McGaughey, of la.; William S. Ash,
of N. Ca.; and George K. Andrews, of N. Y.
Commerce.— Robt, M. McLane, of Md.,
chairman; John Wentworth, of Is.; Joseph
Grinnel, of Ms.; KingsleyS Bingham, of Mn.;
Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga.; J. Philips
Phenix, of N. Y.; Wm. F. Colcock, of S. C.;
Chas. Stetson, of Me.; Chas. M. Conrad, of La.
Public Lands.— James B. Boulin, of Mo.,
chairman; John H. Harmanson, of La.; Nath.
Albertson, of Ind.; Augustine A. Shepherd, of
N. C.; Edward D. Baker, of 111.; Williamson
R. W. Cobb, of Ala.; James Brooks, of N. Y.;
Moses Hoaglandß, of Ohio; Wm. Henry, of Vt.
•Manufactures. —Lucius B. Peck, of ‘Vt.,
chairman; Franklin W. Bowdman, of Ala., Jno.
W. Houston, of Del.: ChauncyF. Cleveland, of
Conn.; Daniel Breck, of Ken.; Thomas Ross, of
of Penn.; James L. Orr, of S. C.; Alfred F.
Owen, of Georgia.
Indian Affairs. —Robert W. Johnston, of Ark,
chairman ; Willard P. Hall of Miss.; Jno. Crowell, 1
of 0.; James X. McLanahan, of Pa.; David Outlaw,
of N. C.; Thomas C. Hackett, of Ga.; David A. Bo-■
kee, or N. Y.; Volney E. Howard of Texas ; Wm. j
Sprague, of Michigan. j
Military Affairs. —Armistead Burt, of S. C., ch’n: ;
William A. Richardson, of III.; James Wilson, of i
N. H.; George Alfred Caldwell, of Ky.; Alexander !
Evans of Md.; David R. Garter, of 0.; John A. I
King, of N. Y.; Andrew Ewing, of Tenn.; Joseph
R. Chandler, of Pa.
Naval Affairs.— Frederick P. Stanton, of Tenn.,
chairman; Thomas J. Bocock, of Va.; Robert C.
Schenck, of O.; Emile La Sere, of La.; U. White,
of N. Y.; Elbridge Gerry, of Me.; E Carrington
Cabell, of Fla.; John McQueen, of S. C.; Lewis C.
Levin, of Pa.
Roads and Canals. —John L. Robinson, of Ind.,
chairman; Job Mann, of Pa.; James G. King, of
N. J.; John C. Mason, of Ky., Harvey Putnam, of
N. Y.; Richard Parker, ol Va.; Amos E. Wood, of
O. Herman D. Gould.
Rules. —David S. Kauffman, of Texas, chairman;
George W. Jones, ot Tenn.; Samuel F. Vinton, of
0.; Wm. Strong, of Pa.; Alexander H. Stephens, ol
Ga.; John S. Phelps, of Mo.; George Ashmun, of
Mass.; Nathaniel S. Littlefield, of Me., Edward W.
McGaughey, of Ind.
• A bill was passed granting the franking privilege
i to Mrs. Sarah Polk, widow of ex-President Polk.
The bill was sent to the .Senate and passed that
body likewise.
Mr. Mann, of Penna., offered a resolution to
abolish flogging in the Navy.
Mr. Venables, of N. C., offered a resolution,
calling on the President to communicate whether
| he has, since last session, appointed a civil or mili-
I tary government for New Mexico or California :
j If so, who they are, what salary they receive, and
whether an agent has been sent out to superintend
the affairs of California, in forming the State Con
vention, controlling elections in said territories;
and that he communicate all proclamations, in
structions and correspondence, and whether any
census has been made of the inhabitants. Mr.
Stephens, of Georgia, suggested an amendment,
that similar orders of the last administration be
asked for. This amendment was accepted by Mi.
Venables, and the resolution passed.
Mr. Carter, of Ohio, offered a resolution in
i structing the Committee of Ways and Means to
bring in a bill to abolish the Home Department,
the offices of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
and Commissioner of Customs. The resolution
-lies over under the rule.
Sundry other resolutions were offered and quite
a number of petitions presented, when the House
adjourned to Thursday.
Agreeably to adjournment both Houses met on
Thursday. In the Senate quite a number of bills
and resolutions were read—amongst the rest, Mr.
Atchison, of Missquri, presented the resolutions of
the Missouri Legislature on the subject of
and instructing their Senators to vote against the
Wilmot Proviso. This brought Col. Benton to
his feet, who made quite a long speech in opposi
tion to the position taken by the Legislature. In
the course of his remarks, he asserted that the res
olutions in question did not represent the sentiments
of the people of Missouri, and that the members of
the Legislature mistook their own powers in pass
ing them. This was denied by Mr. Atchison in
a few words after Col. Benton had concluded his
remarks.
In the House, two ballotings were had for Clerk,
without effecting an election. The following is
the result:
Ist. 2d.
Forney, (Dem.) 97 104
Campbell, (Whig) 77 81
Scattering, 34 26
Whole no. of votes cast 208 211
Necessary to a choice, 105 100
After which the House adjourned.
Both Houses met. In the Senate, Gen. Cass
delivered an eloquent speech in favor of adopting
the resolution enquiring into the expediency of
suspending diplomatic intercourse with Austria.—
Several bills and resolutions, of local importance,
were read, and the Senate adjourned to Monday,
(yesterday.)
In the House, a motion was made and carried
by a majority of one vote, to postpone further bal
lotings for Clerk until Monday, (yesterday.) Sev
eral questions of order were discussed, and the
House adjourned to Monday.
The Central Railroad Cabs now run as far
as McVeytown, twelve miles the other side of Lew
istown. The road is steadily and surely
ing toward the West, and the Directors are using
every means to make the road productive fast
as it is completed. The Good Intent Telegraph
Line of Stages connect with the Railroad at M’Vey
town, and will continue to run to its extreme west
ern point, as it progresses that way. This line runs
elegant Troy built coaches, and is safe and comfor
table for travellers of every class.
07* A Washington letter in the New York Post
says.
•There is at least a majority of two in the Senate
for the admission of California without any altera
tion of her present constitution. In the House there
is a majority of at least sixty. There is a good
prospect of the settlement of the whole question, as
to California, before the first of March next.
Suicide.—A young man named Abraham Ken
pio, in West Lampeter township, committed suicide
( on the 20th ult., by hanging himself. He was a
armer in good circumstances, and leaves a wife
and two childrea. No Game has been assigned for
ths rash act
The' Animal Report of the Secre
taries War, the Bfayy, and
the Interior* •
We give below, in condensed forms,.the reports
of the Secretaries of War, the Navy, and the Inte
rior. From the Report of Mr. Crawford, Secretary
Of War, we learn that the present strength ol
the Army is less than provided for by law, arising
principally from discharges, deaths'and desertions.
Out of a force of 1200 regular troops in
since the Ist of January, ’49, the desertions within
the first eight months have equalled two thinls of
this number.
To remedy many of the defects of the present
recruiting system, and encourage enlistments, in
the vicinity of troops serving at frontier and remote
stations, especially in California, Oregon and New
Mexico, it is recommended that a bounty be
allowed each recruit enlisted at or near such a sta
tion, equal to the cost of transporting and subsist
ing a recruit from the general depot to the place
ol such enlistment. To guard against desertions
and promote good conduct, it is proposed that - the
country be divided into instalments, so that their
several amounts would be increasing annually ac
cording to length ol service, and the largest amount
be paid to the soldier on his discharge.
For the protection of our territory in New Mex
ico from Indian depredations, it is suggested that
tie numerical strength of each company at the
several military posts on our western frontier be
increased to seventy-four privates, and that a part
of the infantry be mounted as emergencies arise.
, The Secretary submits whether the objectin auth
orizing brevet commissions (which have heretofore
caused mucluembarrassment) is not accomplished
b/ retaining them as honorary distinctions, and re
stricting the officers holding them to their lineal
r:mk and pay, according to their commissions by
which they are mustered in their respective regi
ments and corps. If any exceptions be made to
the rule here proposed, it is believed that in view
of the more efficient discipline and service of the
troops, brevet rank and pay should exist only when
volunteers and militia are united with the regular
array; or when the officers having brevet commis
sions are detailed for duty by special assignment
with difficult or expensive commands in remote
departments or divisions. .
It is recommended that a law he enacted requir
ing officers of the general staff serving with troops,
to execute according to their respective duties all
orders emanating from the senior officer of the line
which may relate, to the discipline, police, and
good order of his command, and for which he alone
is responsible.
The Secretary suggests that the President be au
thorized to place on the retired list, such officers
of the army as in his judgment may be disqualified
from age, wounds, or other disability, with an al
lowance equal to the pay proper of their respective
grades. An effective check on the exercise of this
power would be found in a legal inhi. ition, decla
ring that no officer shall be retired until the Senate
shall have confirmed the nomination of his succes
sor. The number of officers to be comprehended
in the list of those who may, with advantage-to
the public service, be retired, will probably not ex
ceed twenty-five; the sum of whose pay wilf be
less than fifreen thousa d dollars annually.
The plan of the commanding General providing
an asylum for veteran soldiers, is warmly urged;
in case ol its non-adoption, that disbursing officers
be authorized to receive voluntary contributions
for that object.
The Military Academy at West Point is highly
commended, and the Indian outrages in New Mex
ico, Texas and Florida, referred to at length.
The establishment of military posts in Oregon—
the protection afforded over-land emigrants to Cal
ifornia-—and the erection of fortifications on the
Pacific, are next referred to, and the report closes
with a reference to the operations of the late mili
tary authority in California, now f superseded by
civil authority.
From the Report of Mr. Preston, Secretary
Of the Navt, we find that he refers to the many
desertions in California, and the difficulty of enlist
ing men there at $lO and $l2 per month, while
the merchant service is paying from $B5 to $l5O.
Our squadrons in the Mediterranean, Pacific,
China seas, on the Brazil, &c., have all been receiv
ed with kindness and treated with courtesy.
The secretary gives an account of the steam
mail service. The Liverpool line will probably
be completed within the time stipulated. This
system however, of increasing the Navy by ocean
steamers is deprecated as too costly. For “ a naval
establishment, that which we are most in need of,
is an independent naval steam force, of such ex
tent and of such magnitude as the wisdom and lib
erality of Congress may think sufficient, and the
necessities of the country may require.”
The resolution authorizing the purchase of
American, instead of foreign water rotted hemp,
will have to be amended, in order to avoid a mon
opoly, and insure the growers of the article the
supply of the navy. It is believed the West can
furnish a sufficient supply superior to the foreign
growth.
The experiments in gunnery at the Washing
ton Navy Yard have been very successful, and the
observations and experiments at the Observatory
continued with great skill.
Reference is made to the examination of the
Pacific coast by a joint commission of officers—to
the floating dry docks at Philadelphia, Pensacola
and Kittery—and to the returns of prize agents.
A revision and fepublication of the various
laws passed for the government of the navy and of
the general orders of the Navy Department, urgent
ly demand attention.
Attention is asked to our interest in the Pacific
ocean and the increasing obligations'the govern
ment is under to protect and cherish it. Within a
short period we have added an extent of sea
coast to our possessions of more than nine hun
dred miles, embracing many good and one of the
best harbors in the world, possessing immense
m’.neral wealth, attracting to its shores the inhabi
ts its of all nations and inviting to it the com
merce and trade of every climate.
The four first class sea going -steamships are in
a course of completion ; t the Saranac will shortly
be ready lor sea; the Jacinto will be ready in the
Sf ring, and the other two during the ensuing Sum
mer. The Secretary recommends the building of
others.
The Secretary says the numbers of officers of
th-5 Navy in the higher grades are greater than are
required, either for the vessels now in commission,
fo.- the number of men authorized by Congress to
be employed, or for any increasing force afloat
which may reasonably be expected. The numbers
in the respective grades are disproportioned to each
other. Its present organization retards promotion.
Age, infirmity and want of employment have dis
qualified many for the performance of active pro
fessional duties. These evils are felt and acknowl
edged by all who have a just regard for the pros
perity and honor of the service.
He therefore recommends a reduction of the
numbers in the various grades of officers to that
point which will secure a sufficient number in each
for such a naval force as Congress may deter
mine is necessary and proper, and that provision
be made for a retired list for such officers as are
disqualified for active service,' on such terms and
on such pay as may be thought liberal and just.
Should Cougress deem it proper to adopt such a
system, it is believed a plan can be prepared which
will meet the approbation of a large proportion of
thu officers themselves, and which will greatly re
duce the expenditures of our naval establishment.
• The estimates for the naval service for the ensu
ing year amount to $9,203,356 15, from which
2,098,978 for special objects.
The total amount drawn from the Treasury dur
ing the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1849,
is $13,167,966 86 ; from which deduct repayments
$2,269,653 99, and the sum of $10,898,342 87 Is
shown as the expense of the navy and marine
corps, and including all objects placed under the
control of the Navy Department for that year.
The value of stores and materials on hand at
navy yards for naval purposes, exclusive of ships
building in ordinary, undergoing repairs and in
commission, ftavy yards and other public lands re
quired foi purposes of the navy, with their im
provements, is $9,853,921 57.
The report doses by asking for an appropriation
to pay a balance of $30,000 to officers and privates,
entitled to three months’ extra pay, ior services
during the Mexican war.
Report ot Mr. Ewing, Secretary
Friday, Jan. 4.
Or the Interior, recommends the creation of
the office of Solicitor of the Department of the In
terior, to determine all legal questions; and sug
gests in view of the decay of the public buildings
at Washington, that specimens of the stone of
which they are built, be carefully analyzed, and
that a series of experiments be tried, with a view
of finding some chemical agent, the application of
which will prevent its absorption of moisture, and
thus strengthen and render it durable.
The Secretary thinks, if Congress should make
an appropriation, considerable progress may be
made in.the coming season, in collecting choice
varieties ot forest trees and shrubs, and planting
and improving the public grounds;
The Patent Office, which marks the progress
and results of the inventive genius of the American
people, is an object of increasing interest and im
portance. The establishment of an Agricultural
Bureau, separated from the Patent Office, is rec
ommended;
The amount of claims for bounty land warrants •
filed at flie Pension Office, prior to Nov. 5,
about 83.000; of these 9.000 have been suspended
or rejected; and about 20.000 remain, to be filed.
The number of invalid peorionera has inareased
during the year, 989; the whole number-now on
the list is 4,11 S> -, " - ~
The quantity of public lands sold for cash in the
fim three quarters of 1849, was 887.206.40 acres,
and the amount roeated by bounty warrants 2.496.
560 acres, making an aggregate increase over the
sales and locations of the preceding year, of 410.
325.89 acres. *
Of 163,000 claims for bounties, 2,922 have been
satined in money, and 70.390 have been allowed
to be satisfied in land—which will require 1&.636.
120 acres; and' should there be but 100,000 valid
claims, as estimated, then there will remain 26,688
unsatisfied claims, which, if settled in land, will
require a further quantity of 4.020.480 acres, ma
king in all 14.656.600 acres. Prior to the Ist of
October last, there had been located with. those
Mexican war warrants, 5.025400 acres, leaving
yet to. be located 9.631.200 acres. Until the
bounty warrants are exhausted, the receipts in cash
from the sales of public lands must be compara
tively small.
The Secretary says it will be especially necessary
to establish a judicial commission to examine and
settle land titles in California. As to the disposi
tion the government should make of its mineral
lands in California, the Secretary says:
If the United States sell the mineral lands for
cash, and transfer at once all title to the gold which
they contain, but a very small part of their value
will probably be realized. It would be better, in
my opinion, to transfer them by sale or lease, re
serving a part of the- gold collected as rent or
seignorage.
After recommending a mint in California, the
Secretary proceeds:
When the land is properly divided, it will, in my
opinion, be best to dispose of it,' whether by lease
or sale, so as to create an estate to be held only on
condition that the gold collected from the mine
shall be delivered into the custody of an officer of
the branch mint Out of the gold so deposited
there should be retained for rent and assay, or
coinage, a fixed per cent., such as may be deemed
reasonable, and the residue passed to the credit of
the miner, and paid to him at his option in coin or
stamped bullion, or its value in drafts on the Treas
ury or mint of the United States. The gold in the
mine, and alter it is gathered until brought
mint, should be and remain the property
United States. The barter, sale, gift or exportation
of any portion of it before it shall have been deliv
ered at the mint, and so coined, or assayed and
stamped, or its concealment with intent to avoid
the payment of rent or seignorage, should involve
a forfeiture of the gold itself, and also of the mine.
The terras of lease of sale should be stringent to
enforce the payment of seignorage or rents.
So far as the surface deposits extend, I am of
opinion that leases will, for yet a further reason,
be preferable to sale of lands. If sold, they will
pass at once into the hands of large capitalists; if
leased, industrious men without capital may become
the proprietors, as they can work the mines and
pay the rent out of the proceeds. But where gold
is found in the rocks in place the case is different.
These must necessarily fall at once into the hands
of large capitalists or joint stock companies, as
they cannot be wrought without a heavy invest
ment.
The report concludes by urging the opening of
a road to the Pacific, and referring to Indian affairs.
Thx Bostox Tragedy. —The Boston Mail con
tradicts pointedly a recent report of further evidences
against Dr. Webster in the Albany Evening Jour
nal, and says—
Dr. W. has been engaged daring his imprison
ment in writing a defence, in which he states all
his business dealings with Dr. Parkman up to the
time of the alleged murder. In this statement he
does not attempt to controvert the circumstances
connected with the discovery of the body, but takes
the broad ground of a conspiracy to fix upon him
the odium of a deed, for the purpose of obtaining the
reward offered, believing that the remnants of a
body found was not the body of Dr. Parkman, but
another body ingeniously placed where it was found
by other hands. Such, we learn, will be one of the
points taken by his counsel in his defence.
The families of Dr. Parkman and Dr. Webster
have ever been on the most friendly terms, receiv
ing and changing visits constantly; but as regards
the money dealings between the deceased and Dr.
W. there can be ho doubt; and that the only cause
of serious difficulty between the parties grew out
of the proverbial punctuality of Dr. P. and want of
prudence and forethought in Dr. W.
Since this dreadful occurence, Mrs. Parkman has
several times written letters of friendship to Mrs.
Webster at Cambridge, in which, without in the
least degree alluding to the murder, she offers the
hand of fellowship and Christian sympathy to her
sister in misfortune, pointing out the path that the
Great Ruler of. all things has offered to the afflicted.
From Hatti—Tub American Flag Disres
pected.—A letter from the American Consul at
Aux Cayes, delivered by the captain of the brig
Wissahicon, at New York, speaks of the iosolence
of the new monarchical government, particularly
to white citizens of the United States. The con
sul, Mr. Loring, says:—
“My life was threatened yesterday, by high au
thority. The Duke was heard to say, ‘Off with
his head! damn the whites that keep slaves!—off*
with his head !—down with republics!’ I wish
you to report this, as I shall take the earliest possi
ble opportunity to inform our government how the
American flag is treated in this part of the island,
and her citizens mnrlp to the most wanton
and scanda'ots insult and aboM ’’
The French & me ima also been threatened.
This couduct on the part of the subjects of “Faus
tin the First” will, no doubt, receive due attention
from the respective governments concerned.
ID" More of tbf Susquehanna Co. Bank.—
The able and vigilant editor of the Montrose Dem
ocrat, gives us the following information respecting
the conduct of the late managers of the exploded
Susquehanna County Bank:
“It appears that a certain share of the notes of
the exploded concern, amounting to some $05,000,
which are distinguished from others by a particu
lar mark, (the letter ‘C’ over the ‘Q’ in Susquehan
na,) are to be wholly repudiated by the Bauk, on
the pretext, we are told, that they were issued in
an illegal manner, or without the authority or con
sent of the Directors of that institution. [lt is this
amount, and these notes, it is alleged, that has been
put into circulation in the West within the last
four months, and the return of which has crushed
the Bank so suddenly.] They were filled, as all
other notes of that institution were filled, with the
exception above, and signed by C. P, Delamater,
Cashier, and William L. Post, President.” 1
lltis notalittle strange that the Messageof the
President, who is supposed to represent every class
in the country, makes no allusion whatever to th e
fact that our'commercial marine was never in a
more prosperous condition than when the late ex
cellent Democratic Executive transfered to his hands
the reins of power. Did he iear to call attention
to this fact.
The Whig papers made a terrible outcry when
President Polk was elected. They prophecied that
our merchants were to be all bankrupt, that our
ships would lie rotting at the wharves, and that our
sailors would be unemployed. What are the results
of a wise and wholesome Democratic administra
tion of the government of this great country? Not
only are the vessels that we have built fully and
profitably employed, but new ones of the best class
and of the largest size are building in almost every
seaport of the Union, Steamers of gigantic propor
tions are launched almost every day. Our mer
chants never made money faster, and, what is still
better, seamen seldom were in greater demand or
received higher wages for their hard and dangerous
labor.— N. Y. Republic,
Father Miller dead.— Mr. William Miller,
familiarly known “Father Mill,” and as “Miller
the prophet,” died at his home in Kompton, Wash
ington county, on the 20th inst., aged about 68.
Mr. Miller was a native of Pittsfield, Mass., and
during the last war with England served as a cap
tain of volunteers on the northern frontier. He
was a shrewd but narrow-minded man, practical in
affaire,though of an ardent and fanatical tempera
ment He began to speak in public assembles up
on the subject of the Millenium i»1833; and in ten
years which preceded the time which he had set for
the consummation ot all prophecy, he labored assid*
uously in the middle and northern States, averaging
it is said, nearly one sermon a day for more tha n
half that period. He was uneducated, and not large
ly read in even the common English commentaries;
his views were absurd, and supported but feebly,
yet he succeeded in building np a sect of some thirty
or forty thousand disciples, which disappeared rap
idly after the close .of the “day of probation” in 1843,
after which time Mr. Miller himself did not often
advocate or defend his views in pubic.
The Banking System*
W« think it is admitted on all hands that there
is something radically in the banking"
system of this Stated or else we should not so fre
quently hear of bank explosions, and, as a conse
quent, the frauds and vilUnies of those who are
entrusted with their management. If the system
was a wholesome one, we apprehend such instances
would-be rare, and the ears of the community less
frequently shocked with recitals of corruption in
high places, and great losses sustained by innocent
note holders. U A tree is known by its fruit”—and
if the fruit be corrupt, the tree itself must be in an
unsound state.
What, then, is the duty of the Legislature, before
whom so many applications for rercharter and for
new charters are pending? Clearly,'to fall upon
some plan by which the community will be pro*
tected from the lossesconsequent upon bank failures.
This is the first consideration—or ought to be, with
the representatives of the people. The next is, to
s distinguish between such institutions as are sound,
and whose business is conducted with honesty and
propriety, and those that are unsound and under cor
rupt management But, how to get at this and make
the distinction, is the difficulty, And yet it ought to
be met and the difficulty surmounted. Let there be
some test established—some great principle or
principles adopted, by which all banks are to be
squared. One of these undoubtedly is the individual
liability of the stockholders, so ably and fearlessly
advocated by the lamented Ssukk. No new charter
ought to be given, nor old bank re-chartered without
this salutary feature. Another principle should be
incorporated in every charter, and that is to make
bank defalcations and fraudulent mis-management
a penitentiary offence without any reservation, and
an ineligibility for ever after to hold any office of
profit or trust either in a bank, from the people, or
under the government. No honestly conducted in
stitution ought to object to these restrictions—and
the sooner dishonest ones are wound up and blotted
from existence, the better for good banks and for
the people.
But, we do not pretend to a sufficient knowledge
of the subject, to suggest all the principles that
ought to be adopted and adhered to by the Legisla
ture, in%ranting bank charters. There are older
and wiser heads there, who have doubtless studied
the matter, and who are able to grapple with all
the intricacies and difficulties of the subject. We
sincerely hqpe they will be able to hit upon some
plan by which Pennsylvania can rid herself of the
present rotten and corrupt system, and thus cast
off the incubus which, for so many years, has been
pressing her to the earth, and sapping the very
foundation of the liberties and prosperity oi her
citizens. The reforms we have suggested, would
effect something by way of -curing the evil. We
hope they will be adopted any now, and such ad
ditional stringent measures as. after mature delibe
ration, may- be thought necessary. The people
expect their representatives to take a decided stand
in the matter. They will not tolerate any tempor
izing, half-way policy. Their servants at Harris*
burg must “toe the mark,” or subject themselves
to the displeasure of their masters. Nothing short
of* a sound, thorough, radical change in the whole
banking system, so as to protect the community
from losses andbring to condign punishment dishonest
bank officers and agents, will satisfy the people.
We hope to see it done. We expect a good result
from the united labors of the able Democratic,
members of the present Legislature, and shall be
disappointed if our anticipations are not realized.
A Speaker at Last!’
The Senate of Ohio, after balloting for about
three weeks elected a Speaker on the 28th ult., on
the 301st ballot! This, we think, is unprecedented
in the annals of legislation—beating the House of
Representatives, at Washington! “all hollow.” For
three hundred ballots the vote stood 18 to 18—a
compromise was then effected, by which the Whigs
got the Speaker and the Democrats the Clerk. The
other branch of the Ohio Legislature had organized
on the first day of the session.
Railroad Accident.— A frightful and melan
choly accident occurred on the Central Railroad,
above Petersburg, Perry County, on Thursday eve
ning last, about 9 o’clock, in consequence of the
down passenger train coming in collision with the
burden train going up—thus causing a collision, and
killing the conductor, Mr. Heislst, and seriously
several of the passengers.
Semi-Weekly Papers at Harris
burg*
The "Keystone" an excellent Democratic news
paper, edited by Miller & Barrett.
The * Democratic Union” published by McKin
let & Lescurb, the State Printers— a sound Dem
ocratic paper.
The subscription price to either is $2 for the ses*
£L r A petition from the School Directors of this
City, was presented in the House of Representatives,
on Wednesday last, by Mr. Hurford, asking the
Legislature to pass a special law to regulate the
Schools in Lancaster.
We are pleased to see this promptness on the
part of Mr. Hurford, and we trust the Legislature
will not hesitate to pass a bill in accordance with
the wishes of the petitioners. Some of the features
of the general law of last session are not adapted
to large towns and cities, and cannot be carried out
without doing injury to the system in this city.—
The highly intelligent Board of Directors have giv
en this matter their careful deliberation, and em*
bodied their views in the petition referred to, which,
if carried into effect by the Legislature, cannot fail
to have & salutary bearing upon the common
schools of thiß city.
Rallroad Fare—Extortion.
The Harrisburg Keystone contains some excellent
remarks on this subject. It thinks the fare between
Harrisburg and Philadelphia an intolerable imposi
tion on the public, and one which ought not longer
to be submitted to. From Harrisburg to Lancaster.
36 miles, it is $1,50, and from Lancaster to Phila
delphia, 69 miles, it is $2,50; of this $2,50, the State
only receives, for the use of her road and motive
power, about $1,54, leaving for finding the cars and
other incidental expenses, 96 cents per passenger, a
service which can be well and satisfactorily per
formed for 30 cents, if not less. Are we not justi
fied then, in saying the public is imposed on? The
fares ought to be reduced from Harrisburg to Phila
delphia, at most, to $3,00. Every way traveller,
which means all on this ride of Pittsburg, would
then save $2 on the round trip to Philadelphia,
which would probably amount, in the aggregate,
to $50,000 per annum, including the local travel
on the Columbia road. A very handsome saving.
We clip the above from the Spirit of the Times ,
-and endorse every word of it with all our heart.
Too long have the people been imposed on in the
shape of extravagant fare exacted by the owners of
cars on this Railroad, and we hope to see the Leg
islature take this matter in hand, without delay,
and effect a reform. That there is a disposition on
the part of the members to do something in the
matter, is evidenced by the fact that a bill has al
ready been presented in the Senate, entitled “an act
to regulate the carrying of passengers on the Phila
delphia and Columbia Railroad.”
After the above was in type, we were pleased to
learn, from the Harrisburg that the Cen
tral Railroad Company have reduced the fare on
their rogd, to a uniform rate of 3 cents per mile,
for passengers, and that the Canal Commissioners
either had, or were about adopting measures,, to
reduce the eharges from Harrisburg to Philadelphia,
to the same rate. This will be done, the Keystone
•ayi, unless the Harrisburg and Lancaster company
shall refuse to come into the measure’..
LOCAL ITEMS.
XjKctdxx.**- Dr. G. B. Kxsyoot will deliver the
introductory to a series of lecturesi on Anatomy
ahd Pbysiolooy, at his residence in this City, this
evening, commencing at 7 o’clock. The Dr. has.
a'deservedly high reputation in his profession, and
we doubt not that his lectures will be exceedingly
interesting and instructive.
Tbe Museum Sold.— We regret to learn, as we
do from the Saturday Express, that the Lancaster
Museum has been sold for want of sufficient patron
age, and that it is to be removed to Cincinnati.
Franklin and Marshall Colleges. —We are
pleased to learn that efforts' are being made, with
a fair prospect of success, to unite Franklin College,
in Lancaster* with Marshall College, at Mercersburg
—the new institution to be located in thin City, and*
to be under the joint control mainly ot the Lutheran,
and German Reformed Churches. Should tbi* ar
rangement take place, a new*, era dawn upon
Lancaster, and we have not a doubt but that with,
good management, in a very short time it will rivali
if not eclipse, any and all of the literary institutions
in the Union.
07“ Mr. Charles W. Coopeb has recently been
elected Treasurer of the Conestoga Steam Mills, in
the place of D. Longnecker, Esq. resigned. P This,
is an excellent appointment.
The Cultivator.— A splendid number for Jan
uary, beautifully, illustrated with designs for Farm
Buildings. Portraits of Domestic Animals, Figures
of Fruits, Implements, &c. For sale at Gish’s.
Fire.— On Friday morning last, between 1 and
2 o’clock, the large building situated near the Old
Factory, about one mile south east oi this city, and
known as the “Cocoonery,” was burned. The ftre>
we learn, was first discovered in the lower story,
and the inmates who were in bed on the second
story, made good their escape with great difficulty
The building was the property, of Dr. Samuel
Humes, of this city?.
Lancaster Quarter Sessions.
JANUARY TERM, , 1850.
Commencing January 21.
GRAND JURORS.-
Henry Brandt, Columbia.
Henry Breneman; East Cocalico.
Thomas G, Collins, Colerain.
JamesjClark, Strasburg.
Henry Dickinson, Esq., Salisbury!
Isaac Eshleman, Mount Joy.
Joseph Gorges, Ephrata.
John Gyger, Strasburg.
Mathias Hurst, Leacock.
Benjamin Herr, West Lampeter.
Christian Herr, jr., do.
William Hayes, Little Brittain.
John Kane, West Hempfield.
Samuel Martin, Martic. I
Christian R. Miller, Conestoga. e
Peter B. Nissly, West Donegal.
David Newswanger, Carnarvon.
Nicholas Plank, ar., Salisbury. * 91
Samuel Royer, East Cocalico.-
Ephraim Shober, Brecknock.
Henry Stoufier, East Lampeter.
Abraham Weaver, Earl.
‘Noah Zook, Brecknock.
PETIT JURORS.
Jacob Aspenshade^Manheim.
Peter Bruner, Warwick.
David Bair, Leacock.
John Brubaker, Elizabeth.
David Cope, Little Britain.
Lewis Cooper, Sadsbury.
John Carr, Lancaster.
Philip Diffenderfer, Rapho.
Michael Dellinger, East Hempfteld.
Robert Evans, Bart.
Jacob Erisman, Rapho*
John Frantz, Manor.
Abraham Gregg, Drumore.
Daniel Gibble, Penn.
Michael Hostetler, East Donega .
Jacob Hiestand, do.
Thomas Houston, do.
Lewis Haines, Fulton.
Edward Hibshman, Ephrata.
Joseph Horst, Mount Joy.
Christian Hess, West Lampeter.
Daniel Helm, Strasburg.
John Hagens, Paradise.
Christian Hiestand, East Hempfield.
John Lintner, Manor.
Jacob Lintner, Lancaster.
John C. Longenecker, East Donegal
John Lintner, jr., Lanoaster.
Henry Lefevre, Martic.
Eckert Myers, West Earl.
S. W. Mifflin, Columbia.
Andrew Mehaffey, Conestoga.
F. Moss, Martic.
John Myers,.Salisbury.
Philip Oldweiler, Conoy.
Samuel S. Patterson, Rapho.
Henry Phaler, Columbia.
Isaac Redsecker, West Donegal.
John Reinhold, West Cooalioo.
Henry H. Shank, East Hempfield.
Jaoob Seitz, Manor.
Joel Sutton, Colerain.
John Seldomridge, Leacock.
Abraham Winkle, East Hempfield.
Michael Wissler, Columbia.
Adam Wenger, West Earl.
Henry Wolf, Elizabeth.
THE MARKETS.
HOUSEKEEPER’S MARKET.
La.icasteb, Jan. 5, 1860.
Bui'xxr—Continues scarce and commands a good
price. Table butter sold at 20 to 23 cents per lb.
Inferior Drought 16 to 18 cents.
Egos—Scarce, and sold at 18a 20cts, per. doz.
Potatoes —Good potatoes at Balo cents per half
peck. By the bushel they are sold at 62|a75 cents.
Chickens —Plenty at 25a31 cents per pair.
Apples —Sold at 121&1S} cts. per naif peck.
Dried Apples —Sold at 3a4 cents per quart.
Honet—Sold at 25 cts. per lb.
Apple Butter —Sol’d at 37&a50 cts. per crock.
Cabbage —From 3 to 6 cts. perTiead.
Celery, Red Beets, Beans, &c. plenty, and at
all prices.
Fresh Pork —Some very fine pork in quarters
sold at s}a6 cts. per lb.
Hahs—Good article brought 12} cts. Shoulders
—sold at 6aB- cents Flitches 5 cts. per lb.
Lard —Extra sold at 7aB cts. per'lo.
OATS-r-Sold at $1,06, in bags of 3 bushels.
Corn—From 55 to 60 cts. per bus. in the ear.
LANCASTER GRAIN MARKET— (wholesale.)
Monday, Jan. 7.
Flour —Fresh ground $4,50 per barrel.
Wheat— White $1 per bush. Red 90&95 cunts.
Corn— Old* 50 cents. New, 37}a46 cents.
Rye—s 6 cents per bushel.
Oats—27 cents per bushel.
Clover Seed—s3,7sa4.oo per bushel.
Whiskey—2s cents per gallon.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5, 1860.
FLOUR.—The flour market remains very quiet?
Holders ask $5,00 for standard shipping brands,
but no sales have been reported. For city con
sumption, the sales are limited at previous rates.—
Rye Flour is dull at $3,00. The fast sale of Com
Meal was at $2,76 per barrel.
GRAlN.—There is. .but a limited amount of
Wheat offering and prices are steady. Sales oftred
at $1,03a1,05, and white at $l,ll. Rye has de
clined. A sale of 1000 bushels on Saturday at 62
cents per bushel. Corn is inactive. We quote old
yellow at 58, and new at 47a49 cents. Oats—Sales
of southern at 29a30 cents per bushel.
WHISKEY—Is in limited demand. Sales ot
both bbls. and hhds. at 27a27i cents.
CATTLE MARKET.—The offering of Beef
Cattle for the week was about 1000 head. Beeves
are selling from $5,50 to 6,75 per 100 lbs.. Hogs.
—There were 800 head in the market, and sold
from $4,50 to 6,00 per 100 lbs. Cows—2oo sold
as follows—s 26 to 28 for fresh, $l5 to 26 for
springers, and $8 to 15 for dry. Sbeep.and Lambs.
The former from $2 to 4, and the latter from $1
ot 3
BALTIMORE, Jan. 5, 1850.
FLOUR.— Sales made yesterday at $4, 75.
GRAlN.—Prime rad wheat 95al02c—white 106 a
108c —family flour White 110&112 cents. Corn, 48
a5O for new white, and 50a52 for yellow. Old corn
56 for white and 60 for yellow. Oats 30a32 cents.
WHISKEY.—SaIesof bbls. at 28 cents, and of
hhds. at 27 cents.
Chambers 9 Celebrated Thomso
nlan Botanic Medicines.
A GENERAL assortment of these truly valuable
and innocent Medicines, are kept for sale at
Adams tf Co.’s Express Office, in North Queen St.,
nearly opposite the Museum, Lancaster, Pa.
Also, at the same place, may be had “Chambers*
Thomsonian Practice . by which every man and
woman may learn in an hour’s time to administer
any required medicine,- with ease and a beneficial
effect. The Books $2. /
The Medicines are neatly put up in packs and
bottles, labelled with directions for using. Prices
vary according to- the article, from 6 to 12} cents
an ounce; packages from 1 to 4 ounces in weight,
*«- . .. ... GILBERT HIUuB, Ageit.
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